The tour which makes me happiest on the inside is the DFA records DJ tour. Various permutations of James Murphy, Juan Maclean, Tim Sweeney, and Shit Robot will be spinning delicious vinyl around North America in the next few months. The reason ostensibly being to promote volume two of the DFA remix compilations. The compilations are like a partial dream come true for me (that dream being, "I wish that the DFA would remix everything I like").

Now if they'd just throw in some Delia & Gavin North American dates, I'd be one happy camper. Dates from here:

Ah, Soulwax boys, how I love thee so. Last time I was overseas I made sure to pick up as much Soulwax material as possible. The Any Minute Now album was somewhat disappointing, but then out came the Nite Versions and damn, is that a good record. It comes out in the US on Modular next week. Just put it on all the way through, doesn't matter the situation. Maybe every band should do nite verisons of their shit.

I'm having a hard time telling who's playing what when, but it's some combination of Soulwax, Nite Versions, 2manyDJ's, and debauchery. I don't know, just wish I could see them. Dates hyah [* w/ JDH & Dave P. (FIXED/NYC)]:

I have not been able to get into MSTRKFT's album The Looks, and their remixes lately have been erring on the "miss" side of hit-or-miss. But part of that is probably because I have high expectations for them, and they still can show that they know how to rock it. I have yet to see them live, so I will probably also catch them the same weekend as Justice in Chicago. Dates:

I have yet to make a full-on post about it, but I have been listening to the Rapture'sPieces of the People We Love non-stop. I think it's fucking great and it makes me cry tears of joy. I am anxious to see how they pull it off live, since I think Echoes in concert (well, the album too) was sort of a mixed bag. Not so great the first time I saw it, pretty great the second time. But I hear they've gotten even better live, so I may try and be in Chicago for this one too.

The Presets are fun and worth checking out for the "Are You the One?" single alone. I was surprised to see that out of the two guys, one is a live drummer, so the other one has a lot on his plate. Fun live show, so it should be really fucking fun to see them open for the Rapture. North American dates: